How is it possible for Igneous’ ears to be in front of his hat?

I can’t understand a single damn thing he’s saying.
 
 
@Background Pony #AA6D
 
Thank you.

Unbutcherede englishe:
 
“In thy absence our homestead received visitors, Limestone.”
 
“I… uh… see. I have faith thou know’st what is for th’ good. Thus hath thy disposition taught me.”
 
“I part from thee to tend what must be tended to and inform Mother of th’ new addition of helping hooves.”

I’d imagine Marble is quite good at being herself.

“toga party”
 
… The help she’s got? John Belushi.

@Background Pony #CE8B
 

@MethidMan
 
My only experience with Elizabethan Modern English in the school system was through on-and-off study of Shakespeare in English class; mostly Romeo and Juliette and then doing Caesar once.
 
Otherwise I read Dante’s Inferno on my own, though that isn’t really an English composition originally as it was Italian.

@Background Pony #CE8B  
Hate to break it to you, but yes, early modern english is indeed a difficult thing for most people. Schools don’t even teach this stuff, at least not by my experience. I’m American-born with fairly good mastery of the English language and I can’t even attempt to write anywhere near the way Pencils did. If I were to write this comic, I would either have to do a lot of googling or get assistance from a historian or linguist.

@Pencils  
OMG, that’s AWESOME! Jean Sibelius is my favorite composer, and through his work I learned about, and have come to respect, the long and bloody history of the Finns.
 
 
Finland, arise; your golden dawn has come!

@The CLaUD  
No, that would clearly be a very minor CK-Class-Restructuring-Scenario; civilization would still persist, but society would be radically different, similar to what would happen if someone were to write in SCP-140.

@Pencils  

 
I see. Well, I only noticed with Igneous’ dialogue, so I suppose your English is actually very good in general.  
The root of the problem is that current English has merged the 2nd person plural and singular into “you” (though of course they are separating again into “you” and “y’all” in some dialects). It used to be that multiple persons were “you” and a single person was “thou”, but people started calling single persons “you” to express politeness and it just got out of hand. Some religious groups (formerly including Quakers, though they have since abandoned the practice for the most part), especially those associated with “plain living”, disliked this practice and retained “thou” longer. The stereotype of a rustic traditionalist calling people “thou” has persisted long after the general population forgot what it meant.  
A further complication is that people read “thou” in old Bible quotations referring to God, and somehow imagine that it is a “more formal” alternative to “you”. This is actually completely backwards relative to historical usage, when for a while - when it was polite to call an individual person “you” but people still remembered what “thou” meant - you could insult people by calling them “thou” in certain contexts, as in:
 
“I thou thee, thou traitor!” (Meaning “I refer to you by an inappropriately informal pronoun, because you are a traitor.”)
 
Anyway, good luck with the comic.

@The CLaUD  

 

@Jackarunda  
The artist is Finnish so it’s not his first language.

Again with the horrible fucking English.

@Dirty Bit  
Are you mad man!? If those two were to ever come into direct contact, it’d create an unstoppable event-horizon. Were talking xk-class-end-of-the-world-scenario level stuff here!!!  
Don’t even joke man.

@Solitude
 
That FF6 reference.

“I’m getting sick of this! Thou art such a pain in the…! Confound it all! I’m starting to talk like dad!”

Oh god, that dress horse…
 
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!!!

@Pencils  
Finland strikes again! Why are Finns so awesome? Seriously after my own countrymen, Finns are my favourite people. Wikipedia has a basic rundown on how to use thee, thou etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English#Grammar

Oh Rarity XD At least she’s got the right idea. Meanwhile, Twilight’s just taking her research too seriously XD
 
I wonder how Marble and Fluttershy will interact.

Jesus, what in the hell is that thing Twi is trying to shove up that dudes ass!?! 0__0

second panel, i laugh so hard ^^ and that thing in twilight hooves